We just played Bristol City in the Johnstone’s Paint trophy – they won on penalties after we drew 2-2 after ninety minutes. You would really think – with them still smarting over us defeating them in our league encounter that this would be the focus of their attentions, now wouldn’t you? But it would appear not to be so, at least for a subsection of supporters.
I was looking at the stats for this blog, amongst the exciting things I can find out is the terms used in search engines by people who find this site. And consistently since the event I’ve had results for phrases like “Bristol City fans trash Nottingham” or “Bristol fans do Amici” – every day. Consistently the Radcliffe Road rioting is what draws some visitors to these pages day after day, despite my only mentioning in passing in a match report, before writing a specific post about it.
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs if there are people who are still thinking fondly about the day they had a ‘piece’ of Nottingham – those days should be over now, I realise that some Forest fans are equally to blame for what occured (if not slightly more so, as reportedly they “started” it – to relapse into playground parlance for a moment). But is that really the most interesting thing between us and City this season? We’re rivals for promotion, for the Championship – we were, until recently, rivals for the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy!
Of course, I compound the problem now because the magical google spiders and search engine whatnots will crawl all over this entry too, and index more references to what happened thus making further hits inevitable – but well, if you did come to this page searching for tales of the fighting between the Forest and Brizzle fans then think on, was not what happened on the pitch more important? And to those Forest fans singing about trashing Bristol at the end of March next year – just think, that could be the day we win promotion, isn’t that what really matters?
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